The very first collection consists of 6 plates made by LA-based artists Raina Lee and Kymia Nawabi, Norfolk-based potter Edmund Davies, Petaluma-based ceramicist Zoe Dering, and Philadelphia-based ceramic artist Jordan McDonald.
Above: The suite of 5 plates on screen. Above: Zoe Dering is a Bay Area-based potter understood for her hand-carving method. For Long-term Collection, she produced an oval plate hand-built from a piece and glazed in a shiny white glaze similar to a meringue icing. A bas-relief scalloped information accessories the edge. Her plate recommendations early 20th-century white stoneware fish plates from France: overstated ovals meant for the measurements of an entire fish to be served at the table. $400 from Long-term Collection Above: Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Kymia Nawabi produced a broad, round hand-built marbled plate made from 2 various clays whose natural color worths operate in visual opposition. Influenced by the Japanese Nerikomi method of stacking and cutting various colors of clay to produce patterns, Kymia Nawabi’s procedure yields unforeseeable, geologic styles. $400 from Long-term Collection Above: LA-based Raina Lee’s racetrack-shaped stoneware plate is hand-built from a piece and glazed with several customized glazes. Raina Lee’s intent with the glazing was to produce a watery landscape, the sensation of a climatic seascape, or body of water paving the way to land. $400 from Long-term Collection Above: From Jordan McDonald, a ceramic artist based in Philadelphia: A generous, parchment-colored round plate with a shallow bowl and turned-down lip embellished with an emerald-toned botanical theme and matte surface. $550 from Long-term Collection Above: Edmund Davies, a studio potter based in Norfolk, UK, contributed a round mid-sized stoneware plate tossed on the wheel in an iron- abundant mix of clays with a soft semi-transparent eggshell texture; the plate is painted freehand with a quilt-like pattern of iron and cobalt oxide, a dark shade that mentions Japanese sumi ink calligraphy. $250 from Long-term Collection